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Help us understand how viruses multiply inside cells!
Learn moreThere are 2 workflows for this project:
- 'Virus Picker' - in this workflow we ask you to click on the viruses in the image.
- 'Virus Classifier' - in this workflow we ask you to identify the virus type by looking at it's characteristics (shape and size).
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About Science Scribbler: Virus Factory - In Schools!
Welcome to the Virus Factory in Schools project page!
In this project, we need you to help us analyse images from the inside of a cell that has been infected with a virus. This will help improve our understanding of how viruses can hijack their host cell's internal machinery to form 'factories' where they replicate.
Your efforts will also help us improve automated data analysis techniques, which will help our team and other researchers do more science faster!
The Virus Factory project was a collaboration between Diamond Light Source and the Division of Structural Biology at the University of Oxford with generous funding from the Wellcome Trust. Turning Virus Factory into Virus Factory in Schools was a collaboration between Diamond Light Source, the University of Oxford, the Rosalind Franklin Institute, and the Zooniverse team. This outreach project was funded by the UKRI’s Science and Technology Facilities Council.
